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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
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By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
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The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.
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Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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